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1. Editor's Note: Why Some U.S. Citizens Still Can't Get Broadband
2. Today's Top Story
- Massive Insider Breach At DuPont
3. Breaking News
- Vista Launch Week Sales Less Than XP
- HP Offers New Integrity Servers, Operating System Upgrade
- Google Earth Gets KML Search
- Hackers Use New Zero-Day Word Exploit In Targeted Attack
- Smokers Open The Door For Hackers ... Literally
- MySpace Teen Suit Dismissed By Texas Court
- Alliance Will Push Enterprise Adoption Of Open Source Code
- Eli Lilly Recovers Confidential Documents But Loses Secrets To The Web
- Data Center Energy Consumption Has Doubled Since 2000
- Microsoft Adds Analytics To Its Dynamics CRM Software
- Women Seeking Straight Men Flock To Sites Popular Among Women
- Hacker Claims Progress In Decrypting High-Definition Movies
4. The Latest Personal Tech Blog Posts
- Warner Music CEO Warns Wireless Industry The iPhone Could Win The Mobile Music Market
- Paying Even More For Your Cell
- Why My Deep-Seated Moral Principles Prevent Me From Putting Microsoft Office On My Mac
- Google, Microsoft, And Dell Are Developing A Wireless Device?
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- Eight Ways On-Site Service Can Generate Revenue
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"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." -- Philip K. Dick
Over the past few decades, the citizens of these United States have had to become used to the fact that, when it comes to technology, we're falling behind. Our cars, TVs, phones, PCs, and other gadgets are more likely to come from an Asian or European factory than from a U.S. facility -- and let's not even talk about who's doing the tech support for our computers. Now it looks like we can't even keep up with Internet access.
According to a startling article by Richard Hoffman titled When It Comes To Broadband, U.S. Plays Follow The Leader, broadband coverage in the United States -- when measured by per capita penetration -- has fallen behind such countries as China, Iceland, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Canada. If you live in a rural area, you're less likely to have access to broadband, and wherever you live, you're going to be paying more for it than your equivalent in other nations.
Why? Because large telecommunications companies want to invest their dollars where they'll get the most return on investment, so if you live in an area where it's not profitable to supply broadband, you're out of luck. And those who do live in a region where broadband is available will find that there's very little competition among suppliers -- in fact, most of us have a choice between a single DSL supplier and a single cable supplier. Now, this may not be an issue for, say, Verizon or Time Warner, but it does mean that the United States is falling behind other nations in making sure its citizens have access to the Internet.
I'm lucky. I live in an urban area where broadband connections are available and fairly reasonably priced. However, I know at least one writer who has had to deal with inconsistent satellite service for years because he lives in a rural area of the country. I've gotten e-mails from others who reported that their local governments were trying to find some way to get service to residents. (If they can -- according to Hoffman's article, lobbying by telecommunications companies can stop a state initiative in its tracks.)
In the middle of the 20th century, the telephone went from being a luxury item to a necessity. Today, a broadband connection to the Internet is making the same transition -- but the United States may not be ready for it.
Are you a victim of this type of selective broadband coverage? Does the fact that the United States is falling behind make you steamed? Or do you believe that this is a mountain built out of a molehill? Leave a comment at the InformationWeek Blog and let us know.
Barbara Krasnoff
Massive Insider Breach At DuPont
Vista Launch Week Sales Less Than XP
HP Offers New Integrity Servers, Operating System Upgrade
Google Earth Gets KML Search
Hackers Use New Zero-Day Word Exploit In Targeted Attack
Smokers Open The Door For Hackers ... Literally
MySpace Teen Suit Dismissed By Texas Court
Alliance Will Push Enterprise Adoption Of Open Source Code
Eli Lilly Recovers Confidential Documents But Loses Secrets To The Web
Data Center Energy Consumption Has Doubled Since 2000
Microsoft Adds Analytics To Its Dynamics CRM Software
Women Seeking Straight Men Flock To Sites Popular Among Women
Hacker Claims Progress In Decrypting High-Definition Movies
Managing A Windows Vista Migration
VoiceCon Spring 2007: The Essential Conference On Enterprise Voice
Warner Music CEO Warns Wireless Industry The iPhone Could Win The Mobile Music Market
Paying Even More For Your Cell
Why My Deep-Seated Moral Principles Prevent Me From Putting Microsoft Office On My Mac
Google, Microsoft, And Dell Are Developing A Wireless Device?
Eight Ways On-Site Service Can Generate Revenue
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1. Editor's Note: Why Some U.S. Citizens Still Can't Get Broadband
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A research chemist who worked for DuPont for 10 years before accepting a job with a competitor downloaded 22,000 sensitive documents and viewed 16,706 more in the company's electronic library.
An NPD Group report suggests Microsoft's gamble on its new operating system will help keep dollar volumes from dipping faster than the number of shrink-wrapped boxes sold.
Version 3 of HP-UX 11i has been enhanced for improved virtualization.
A KML file can, for example, add data points to a Google Earth map of New Zealand that show where various scenes from the three Lord Of The Rings films were shot.
Hackers used the vulnerability, which was confirmed Wednesday, to launch an attack against two employees at the same company earlier this month.
One propped-open door to a smoking area can be a huge security risk for a company otherwise focused on battening down the network hatches.
A federal court dismissed a negligence lawsuit filed by the family of a teenage girl who was sexually assaulted by someone she met on the social networking site.
The alliance hopes to reduce the number of skills needed to bring open source code inside the enterprise and make it easier to deploy.
The judge rejected Eli Lilly's request to ban Web sites from publishing the documents based on the difficulty of enforcing such an order.
Worldwide, the electricity consumption for data center servers in 2005 was equivalent to 14 power plants, according to a new study.
The plug-in for Dynamics is part of Microsoft's grab at a multibillion-dollar BI industry.
Bad news, though. Web sites drawing the highest percentage of male visitors were those geared toward gay men.
The hacker, who calls himself Arnezami, published his work Sunday on the Internet.
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Warner Music CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr. walked into the 3GSM World Congress and pointed right at the pink elephant in the room: the iPhone. Bronfman warned the industry that if it cannot improve mobile music services, it could lose the market to Apple.
According to an article in The New York Times, marketers have their eyes on our cell phones. Apparently, they say, it won't be long before we'll have to wait through a 15-second advertisement to check our e-mail or send a message.
I decided the other day that I'm going to strive to avoid putting Microsoft Office on my new Mac. Like many users, I have a deep-seated moral principle preventing me from deploying this Microsoft product.
According to a report from Bloomberg, Google is working with Microsoft, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, and Philips to develop a prototype wireless device. The proposed device would, supposedly, use some variant of Wi-Fi. I'm not sure if this is the Google Phone or something else.
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